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Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the ancient…Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the antient…
Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the ancient Britons [sic] being an answer to a book, intituled [sic] Children's baptism from Heaven, published in the Welsh tongue by Mr. James Owen / by Benjamin Keach.Light broke forth in Wales, expelling darkness, or, The Englishman's love to the antient Britains [sic] being an answer to a book, iutituled [sic] Children's baptism from Heaven, published in the Welsh tongue by Mr. James Owen / by Benjamin Keach.
London: printed by William Marshall, 1696
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
7. You say little Children were Members of the Church of God in the time of John, none can deny that, because Circumcision, the Seal of the Covenant, was upon them, all the Seed of Abraham were at that time God's visible Church, and they were his only Church upon Earth; they were not out of the Church before they were baptized, neither were they received into the Church of God through Baptism, as those that were out of it before, but the whole Nation were baptized, because they were Members of God's visible Church; and because little Children were Members of the visible Church, the Baptism of John appertained unto them.
7. You say little Children were Members of the Church of God in the time of John, none can deny that, because Circumsion, the Seal of the Covenant, was upon them, all the Seed of Abraham were at that time God's visible Church, and they were his only Church upon Earth; they were not out of the Church before they were baptized, neither were they received into the Church of God through Baptism, as those that were out of it before, but the whole Nation were baptized, because they were Members of God's visible Church; and because little Children were Members of the visible Church, the Baptism of John appertained unto them.
1. Answer, I answer, we deny not but the Jewish Infants were Members of God's legal Church; but I ask you whether John's Baptism was a legal Ordinance, or a pure Gospel Ordinance, as Circumcision was, prove it; we deny it, and say it was Evangelical, and did not appertain to the Jews, or the Seed of Abraham, according to the Flesh as such.
2. If you should prove it was a legal Ordinance, yet it doth not follow, Infants of the Jews ought to be baptized as their Males were to be Circumcised, because there was a clear positive command to circumcise them, but none to baptize them.